This is the foremost step of reading a map. You should know whattype of mapyou possess. You can quickly determine it by checking if the map is specific or non-specific and includes any stats. This would help in differentiating between reference maps and thematic maps. By the look of it,...
Cartography provides a powerful and creative means to visualize and comprehend the world around us. Beyond the feat of navigation, maps have been tools of war, instruments of education, and mediums for art. Maps matter. But what is a map? In this presentation, we ...
The term "Flow map" came from cartography. It is a particular combination of maps and flow diagrams, where the width of the arrows is determined with the flow volume — so-called Sankey diagrams
The aspect map above is from a south point of view. That’s why the shades on the map are mostly light green (southeast), light blue (south), and blue (southwest). When you rotate the map as a north point-of-view, you see mostly purple (northwest), red (north), and orange (nor...
Cartography Guide A short, friendly guide to basic principles of map design What is a map? It may sound silly to ask what a map is, but it’s important to understand the what and why of maps. A simple definition is that a map is a representation of a place. This carries two importa...
Cartography is the art and science of map making. Basic cartography covers two components: location data, which indicates where a...
A basemap is a fundamental building block of cartography that provides geographical context to the map and other dataset layers above it.
Elements of viral cartography 1. Simplicity Like all good maps, viral maps are easy to understand. It shouldn’t take anyone more than a few second to get what the map is talking about – like the one below that shows you just how densely populated India is: ...
From this map, we see that the corners of the legend tell us a great deal of information. The purple values show where high rates of both obesity and diabetes. The darkest pink values show where there is a high amount of diabetic population, but fewer people with obesity. The darkest blu...
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